Sam Allardyce has revealed that David Sullivan and David Gold are ready to spend in January in order to preserve West Ham's Premier League position.
For several months now Gold in particular has waxed lyrical about the effects of Financial Fair Play and how West Ham must adhere to the regulations in order to avoid a potential points penalty, or fine.However that strict adherence is likely to be tested - if not ignored entirely - in January with West Ham needing to boost their attacking options, having managed to score just nine league goals so far this season.
"They [the Chairman] are focussed on what we might be able to achieve in January," Sam Allardyce said this morning. "That's been the main focus with both Davids and I'm obviously pleased that we're looking in the market and we're very active.
"Everybody knows that David [Sullivan], particularly, is a man who moves extremely quickly when we've made a decision. But finding and securing that target is very difficult, as we found before the last window shut but failed to clinch the deal.
Perhaps we're paying the penalty for that now. It shows you how difficult it is to get somebody on the front line. Of course we didn't expect Andy [Carroll] to be out still now, we expected him to be playing two or three games into the season.
"That hasn't happened and the rest of our strikers have failed to score a few goals to help us get more victories instead of draws."
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